Windshield getting hazy

[Calendyr]

Hey guys, someone asked me a question and I am not sure of what to tell him.

Here is the problem he is experiencing:

His windshield gets hazy from the Inside. When he cleans it, the haze returns after a day or two.

The only thing I could think of was that he was using armor all on the Dashboard and the product evaporates in the sun and sticks to the windshield. So I suggested to him to clean the Dashboard with an APC and stop using armor all.

Do you guys have other ideas on what might be causing this?

 

[Evan.J]

Is it a newer car?

If I remember correctly I believe that with newer cars the chemicals in the plastic within the AC unit will evaporate and cause a film to build up along the front windshield of new vehicles.

 

[FUNX650]

What the heck causes that haze?

Basically anything that is in, or gets in a vehicle emits "vapors"...
Especially when the vehicle (and everything in it) bakes in the sun & summer heat.

Just by virtue of the driver's (and any passengers sitting in the car) breathing, sweat molecules, body odor, burping;
a mixture of air-borne contaminates/dirt; smoking; dirty/clogged cabin filter(s);
and out-gassing-volatiles from the plastics on the inside of the car; etc.;...can be factors in causing this haze.

Volatiles...good term.

"I ate at the Indian restaurant the other day and now I'm off-gassing some volatiles."

Add this...to the stuff in a vehicle...that comes to rest on the interior of car windows.



Bob

 

[TroyScherer]

Hey guys, someone asked me a question and I am not sure of what to tell him.

Here is the problem he is experiencing:

His windshield gets hazy from the Inside. When he cleans it, the haze returns after a day or two.

The only thing I could think of was that he was using armor all on the Dashboard and the product evaporates in the sun and sticks to the windshield. So I suggested to him to clean the Dashboard with an APC and stop using armor all.

Do you guys have other ideas on what might be causing this?

I would guess his dressing of choice is causing this. But really almost any dressing will cause this when 1st applied and it gets hot. Another thing that contributes to this is the glass cleaner that is used. Believe it or not most glass cleaner leave a little bit of a film behind.

One of the best cleaning option I have found was switching to the CarPro-Us "Fast Glass" towels. You don't need and chemical to clean the windows so there is no residue left over. And they clean amazingly well.

Link to Review: http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...3-product-review-carpro-fast-glass-towel.html

 

[KillaCam]

It's either the dressing being used or the plastic in the interior gassing. Carpro fast glass towels fixed this problem for me.

 

[Calendyr]

He told me he was using windex for cleaning his glass. I do not know if he smokes. Hopefully I will be talking to him soon and find out if removing armor all fixed the problem.

If not I will talk to him about fast glass towels

 

[allenk4]

+1 Fast Glass Towels

AG doesn't sell them because if they did....they would not be able to sell any glass cleaner.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

The only thing I could think of was that he was using armor all on the Dashboard and the product evaporates in the sun and sticks to the windshield. So I suggested to him to clean the Dashboard with an APC and stop using armor all.

As some of the other members alluded to, it's not just the dash--but other interior surfaces that may have dressing etc. applied to them, door panels, seats, etc.

 

[FUNX650]

+1 Fast Glass Towels

AG doesn't sell them because if they did....they would not be able to sell any glass cleaner.

HMMM...I wonder how these would stack-up against my K-D Cloths.

Bob,

I would guess these would stack up very well, if not identically...

Bob